State ex rel. Griffith v. Howard

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

This is a proceeding in quo warranto to oust the defendant from the office of county commissioner of Rawlins county for willful misconduct and neglect of duty in the office of county commissioner.

The petition contains nine counts, the first of which charges that the defendant on December 13, 1925, “did knowingly, willfully, wrongfully and corruptly take and use a certain Ford automobile belonging to Rawlins county, Kansas, for the purpose of transporting himself from the city of McDonald, Rawlins county, Kansas, to the city of Denver,…